Country size comparison

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Turkey is about 22 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, making Turkey 4.58% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~143.5 million people (57.6 million fewer people live in Turkey).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Turkey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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